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To: frgoff
Creationists like to point to it as proof of the existence of God, but the actual hypothesis is neutral in regards to god. Creationists like to point to it as proof of the existence of God, but the actual hypothesis is neutral in regards to god.

Which is fine if you are talking philosophy. In order to elevate ID to a physical science, you are going to have to come up with a physical process by which this stuff occurs, and some shred of physical evidence. Otherwise you are just invoking miracles to get your design work done.

For example, I have heard many arguments against irreducible complexity by Darwinists, but have yet to have ONE of them present an actual experiment to support their hypothesis.

Every time biologists elucidate the mechanisms that cause biological structures to occur, they strike another blow against 'irreducible complexity'. Since much of this work is still in it's infancy, there are certainly many gaps in what we know. But I think it's silly (at best) to claim that it's impossible for complex structures to have developed by biochemical processes.

Anyway, it's easy to propose a hypothesis and challenge the world to prove it's impossible: "I claim that little invisible gnomes have created the world. Nobody has ever seen one, but I read in a Holy Book that they were responsible. I challenge all scientists to drop their research and investigate Intelligent Gnomism. If they don't, I concluded they are too scared of IG, which challenges their unproven evolutionary theories."

50 posted on 11/29/2005 11:41:56 AM PST by blowfish
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To: blowfish
"In order to elevate ID to a physical science, you are going to have to come up with a physical process by which this stuff occurs, and some shred of physical evidence."

How about the statistical improbability for the random event sequence to create ribonucleic acid. More atoms exist in the universe than the statistical probability of this happening by chance.
51 posted on 11/29/2005 11:50:04 AM PST by sasafras ("Licentiousness destroyes order, and when chaos ensues, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.)
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